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White County
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county in Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- Founded
- 1857 ; 169 years ago ( 1857 )
- Named after
- David T. White
- Seat
- Cleveland
- Largest city
- Cleveland
- Total
- 242 sq mi (630 km )
- Land
- 241 sq mi (620 km )
- Water
- 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 29,802
- Density
- 116/sq mi (44.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 9th
- Website
- whitecountyga.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Georgia
- Capital
- Cleveland
- Population
- 28003
- Area
- 242
- Shares border with
- Lumpkin County
- Official website
- www.whitecounty.net
- Image
- White County Courthouse Museum, Cleveland GA April 2017.jpg
- Households
- 11727
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- Commons category
- White County, Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:White County, Georgia
- inception
- 1857-00-00
- different from
- White County
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- native label
- White County
- per capita income
- 28340
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Encyclopedic overview
White County is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,003. The county seat is Cleveland. The county was created on December 22, 1857, formerly a part of Habersham County and most likely was named for Newton County Representative David T. White, who helped a Habersham representative successfully attain passage of an act creating the new county.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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